For those of you who like mysteries, particularly Sherlock Holmes, there are hundreds of radio dramas in mp3 format FREE at http://www.sherlock-holmes.org.uk/Media/Radio/Introduction_to_Radio_Broadcasts.htm
Holmes on the Radio

Sherlock Holmes stories have been a part of radio programming since 1930. There are some 600 broadcasts listed on this site, and the list is by no means complete, as we have not yet included non-English adaptations.

UK (British Broadcasting Corporation)

There are references to broadcasts featuring Arthur Wontner from July 3, 1943, but the longest running series featured Norman Shelley & Carleton Hobbs, (1952-1969). Sherlock Holmes (1954-55) with John Geilgud and Ralph Richardson is highly regarded. All of the USA performances can be downloaded.

A series of 13 stories made in Birmingham in 1978 with Barry Foster. Other broadcasts include Sherlock Holmes vs Dracula (1981) - a one-off! An article contributed by Matthew J Elliott deals with some of the more obscure BBC broadcasts from 1974 to 1993.

The most complete series featured Michael Williams and Clive Merrison, where the same two performers broadcast all of the Canonical Tales, Details are here. (BBC Radio - 1988-1998), together with an obituary of Michael Williams. A sequel, broadcast by Radio 4 during January and February 2002, was The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, written by Bert Coules, five new tales of mystery and murder, inspired by the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle starring Clive Merrison as Sherlock Holmes and Andrew Sachs as Dr John Watson. The page includes links to Bert Coules' site, where cassettes of the new tales can be purchased.

When I try to access the radio programs (either the direct link or going to the home page and clicking on the link there), I come up with the following error message, regardless whether I use Internet Explorer (6.0 SP2) or Firefox (1.0) browser:



The page cannot be displayed

There is a problem with the page you are looking for and it cannot be displayed. This error can occur if you are trying to display an HTML page that resides in a directory that is configured to allow Execute or Script permissions only.

Please try the following:

Contact the Web site administrator if you believe this directory should allow read access.
HTTP Error 403.2 - Forbidden: Read access is denied.
Internet Information Services (IIS)

Technical Information (for support personnel)

Go to Microsoft Product Support Services (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=8180) and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 403.
Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Using Virtual Directories, Changing Default Web Site Settings, and About Custom Error Messages.
Can one of you more technical folk give me a "quick and dirty" on what it all means? Does this have something to do with my firewalls or am I disallowed because I am not a member of the Society?

Does this have something to do with my firewalls or am I disallowed because I am not a member of the Society?It appears the server is screwed up - A directory permissions issue I suppose. It was working earlier.

If it's not working in a day I'll delete this post. I have a lot of old radio programs on my house server and I like broadcasts like this so I'll be watching.

BTW - Here's one for X-1 and some other free old time radio shows in mp3 format.

http://www.radiolovers.com/

BTW - Here's one for X-1 and some other free old time radio shows in mp3 format.

http://www.radiolovers.com/thanks for the link
I took a nap while listening to an old favorite - the Bickersons with Don Ameche and Francis (es?) Langford. They still hold up well after all these years. If I had a vote - I'd vote them as MUCH funnier than George Burns and Gracie Allen.

Yeah - I like the Bickersons as well. I only have about 4 episodes, though.

I've been 'collecting' for about 4 years. I have quite a few different ones from newsgroups and from trolling some p2p networks. I really like Life of Riley, Amos and Andy, the Aldrich Family, Fibber McGee, Bob Hope, Great Gildersleeve, Groucho Marx, Lum & Abner, Mel Blanc Show, Lux Radio Theater, Our Miss Brooks, Phil Harris and Alice Fay, Sealtest Variety Theater, and The Fred Allen Show (to name a few ;) ). Even the commercials are interesting - Especially considering those of today...

It appears the server is screwed up.It still is, but the site itself is accessible and clearly worth a look: http://www.sherlock-holmes.org.uk/. I guess we'll have to wait for them to fix their broadcast archive. Thank's for the link btw. Your timing is good. I'm reading some Sherlock Holmes novels right now.

Could I find any mp3's of the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I wonder? I'll have a look see during lunch.

/Claes

It still is, but the site itself is accessible and clearly worth a look: http://www.sherlock-holmes.org.uk/. I guess we'll have to wait for them to fix their broadcast archive. Thank's for the link btw. Your timing is good. I'm reading some Sherlock Holmes novels right now.

Could I find any mp3's of the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I wonder? I'll have a look see during lunch.

/ClaesI think the HHGG is still under copyright, unlike the ones mentioned above, which are from my childhood and even earlier. I remember my grandfather (who owned a movie house)telling me the only way theater owners could get people to come to their movie theaters on the night Amos and Andy was broadcast was to arrange the films around the show time and run the broadcast through the movie house speakers for the audience!

My personal copyright recognition is the 14 years the founding fathers of the United States envisioned. Period.

I think the HHGG is still under copyright, unlike the ones mentioned aboveYep, it is, but I found out that I can get it nevertheless. It's just not free, but I can live with that.

/Claes